And hell's army marches onward today. For those not aware through a private agreement between hollywood and the major ISPs starting within the next few months your ISPs will in fact be monitoring your traffic watching for copyrighted material. The organization created by this collusion is the Center for Copyright Information and while taking on a gentle face, saying that they want to educate violators about copyright instead of punishing them, while choking their internet connection to nothing. Of course in the same breath they list half-truths and full lies and on their website.

Most notably is that they keep up the myth about piracy costing obscene amounts of money and thus jobs (>implying that money would go job creation even if it existed). However a recent information coming from France, which has the strictest measures in place regarding copyright, shows that even with piracy down in that country sales are not going up with any significant effect.

The MegaUpload case is different from PIPA. MegaUpload is being charged with something like $500,000,000 worth of lost revenue to copyright holders. Apparently they are also being charged with wire fraud now, after it was discovered that in conversations with other companies that requested it, MegaUpload told them their content had been removed from the site when in fact it had not. Additionally, there's a user ("VV") that uploaded nearly 17,000 files and generated more than 34 million page views over the course of two years; many requests were made to have some of his content removed on copyright grounds, but records show that none of them were. They paid VV about $3,400 through their rewards program.

My point is, even if there was no SOPA or PIPA, those copyright violations would still stand.

icha_icha_paradise wrote:Ah, does this mean I'm going to need more than just peerblock?

Peerblock is absolutely useless.

There is no legitimate way to verify a "bad" peer, a company can use any given ISP as a point of entry, and can appear to be a normal customer joining a swarm. You're just getting a placebo with peerblock.